Rampant botting and RMT..nothing being done

[Teryaani]

Nothing happening, eh?

Most of us aren't saying that they're doing nothing. What we're saying is that what they're doing isn't stopping the spam. Because it isn't. Botting and gil selling is going to keep happening, I think most of us just want the being bothered to stop.

The bots and RMT sellers are on the JP servers just as much as they are on the other servers. The only difference is that there they do not spam/send whispers/send friend requests...because they know better than to shake the hornets nest in the owners' back yard.

I think that's part of it. They do send /tells on JP servers, but only in text swapped English to defeat the filters and it's much much more rare. I suspect that it isn't as lucrative to advertise that way which is exactly where I wish we could get on NA/EU servers. In other conversations about this, it's been made perfectly clear to people that players on JP servers buy gold. It's just marketed differently.

[SummerSkye]

In other conversations about this, it's been made perfectly clear to people that players on JP servers buy gold.

Yep. Go make a character on a JP server. Then search for level 50 BLMs. You will see the same army of "Sasfdsg Kldsalld" type names just like on any NA server. The people that say that it is not an issue on the JP servers are simply wrong. That being said, what bothers me most about RMT, is that they deter new players that are trying this game from taking it serious or subscribing. No other subscription based MMO has this level of spam. I know friends who have came out of their initial cut scene to a wall of spam from RMT. Not good. This game, like any MMO, needs new players coming in.